placenamesArtramon
Ard Chromáin
Lewis recorded the practical support attached to a school established in 1818.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Ard Chromáin · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Artramon · English · main form
Place & story
A school for girls and boys
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Artramon parish in County Wexford, written as Artramont or Ardtramont, records a school established in 1818 for children of both sexes. Sir Francis le Hunte paid for the schoolhouse and remained its chief supporter. Accommodation included a girls’ workroom, with room overall for about one hundred children. That figure describes capacity, rather than a recorded attendance total. [2]
Supporting the teacher
The master received living apartments and two acres of land, together with £20 a year and six tons of coal annually. These combined forms of support went beyond a cash payment. Lewis separately noted red sandstone quarried for building within the parish and the long-ruined parish church. His account does not identify the teacher by name or establish how the land was used. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wexford
- Barony
- Shelmaliere East
- Coordinates
- 52.38797, -6.48387
- Mapped area
- 7.35 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2519 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Artramon. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Artramont or Ardtramont, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-08-04. How this page was prepared.